An Ecology of Knowledges – Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation: Experimental Futures

List of Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction. What on Earth Is a Nooscape? 1
Learning How to See 10
1. The Many Worlds of the Maya Biosphere Reserve 13
Silences of Memory 32
I. Double Visions: Technoscience and Paranoia
2. Eye of the Storm 37
Corrupted Data 57
3. Mapping Gobernabilidad 59
Gender and Violence 92
4. But Is It a Basin? 94
Peteneros and Other Endemic Species 116
II. Patchiness and Fragmentation
5. A Reserve Full of Rooftops 121
Parks, Poverty, People 152
6. Fire at the Edge of the Forest 155
Death of a Dog 185
III. Composing and Composting Knowledges
7. A Known Place 189
Certainty Emerges 216
Apocalypse Soon! 245
9. Nine / Redd+Queen Futures 247
Modest Interventions 265
Afterword 268
Notes 273
References 287
Index 303